Haskell 2010: libraries

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Mon Jul 27 16:03:34 EDT 2009


On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:57:34PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:23:51PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 00:20 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:56:50PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > > > 
> > > To take one example, since List was immortalised in the H98 report with
> > > 104 exports, Data.List has gained an additional 7 exports:
> > >
> > > The last change (making the behaviour of the generic* functions
> > > consistent with their non-generic counterparts) was less than a year
> > > ago, and the last additions were less than 2.
> > 
> > Though also note that we have not changed any of the existing ones.
> 
> Yes we have, less than a year ago:

Also, we've just had a proposal to change some others:
    Generalize the type of Data.List.{deleteBy, deleteFirstsBy}
    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3399

Both functions are spec in List in haskell98:
    http://haskell.org/onlinereport/list.html


Thanks
Ian



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